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Cisco® Intercloud Fabric for Business enables enterprises to create a seamless hybrid cloud by transparently extending their data centers or private clouds into public clouds and provider-hosted clouds. Using industry-leading Cisco networking capabilities, Cisco Intercloud Fabric allows enterprises to deploy a hybrid cloud that combines the benefits of public and private clouds. With Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Business, enterprises can have the agility and flexibility they need while retaining full security and control.

Overview

With Cisco Intercloud Fabric for Business, customers can build secure hybrid clouds and extend their existing data center to public clouds on demand. Cisco Intercloud Fabric is a highly secure, open, and flexible solution that enables freedom in workload placement across private and public clouds in response to business needs. It helps ensure the same network security and access control policies in the public cloud as previously were enforced in the data center. Cisco Intercloud Fabric enables enterprises to connect on-premises data centers to multiple provider clouds and take advantage of elastic cloud capacity, lower costs, and fast access to resources.

The benefits of Cisco Intercloud Fabric include:

●Freedom to place workloads across heterogeneous clouds with unified workload management

●Bidirectional workload mobility across clouds

●Choice of hypervisor and public cloud providers

●Centralized visibility across private and public cloud environments

●Consistent operational model with common network and security policies across private and public clouds

●Self-service workload deployment: Cisco Intercloud Fabric allows end users to easily deploy workloads across various public clouds or migrate workloads across clouds. It offers a built-in administration and end-user portal as well as rich northbound APIs for automation.

●End-to-end security: Cisco Intercloud Fabric provides end-to-end cryptographic secure connectivity from private to public clouds and security within the public cloud for data in motion.

●Bidirectional workload mobility: Cisco Intercloud Fabric allows workloads to be migrated from private to public clouds and back. It includes automatic image conversion to the desired cloud format, so virtual machines can be placed on or migrated to any cloud.

●Cisco Intercloud Fabric Director serves as the end-user and IT portal for provisioning and management of the public cloud extension. This single console provides visibility into virtual machines in private clouds along with complete lifecycle management for virtual machines running in public clouds. It is also used for managing cloud network services. Cisco Intercloud Fabric provides open APIs, which allow integration of third-party management tools.

In this release, Cisco Intercloud Fabric is supported on VMware vSphere with the software available for download. OpenStack KVM, and Microsoft Hyper-V is supported with limited capabilities (please reach out to the Cisco sales team for access to software).

The following tables identify the system requirements for installing Cisco Intercloud Fabric.

Table 2.System Requirements

Requirement

Description

Cisco Intercloud Fabric Director

Host

One host for hosting Cisco Intercloud Fabric components

CPUs

64-bit x86 CPU (VT capable)

Network interface cards (NICs)

2 (1 Gbps or 10 Gbps)

Cisco Intercloud Fabric Extender

Memory

2 GB

CPU

2 vCPUs

Disk

4 GB

Cisco Intercloud Fabric Director VSM

Memory

2 GB

CPU

1 vCPU

Disk

3 GB

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for OpenStack

Version

7.0

Table 3.Hypervisor Requirements

Requirement

Description

VMware

Version

5.1 or 5.5, ESXi

vCPU

8

Disk

350 GB

Memory

8 GB

Openstack KVM

Version

Icehouse

vCPU

8

Disk

350 GB

Memory

8 GB

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)

Version

SCVMM 2012 R2

vCPU

8

Disk

350 GB

Memory

8 GB

Table 4.Client Requirements

Supported Cloud Providers

Supported OS Version

Operating System

Microsoft Windows or Apple Mac OS

Browser

Google Chrome 32.0 or higher

Note We recommend that you use Google Chrome for Intercloud Fabric.

Flash Player

Adobe Flash Player plugin 11.9 or higher

Table 5.System Requirements for Provider Clouds

Provider/Model

Device

vCPU

Memory (GB)

Disk (GB)

AWS

c3.2xlarge

Intercloud Fabric Switch

8

15

20

C3.xlarge

Intercloud Fabric Router

4

7.5

8

m3.medium

Intercloud Fabric Firewall (VSG)

1

3.75

20

Azure

A3

Intercloud Fabric Switch

4

7

20

All Other Providers

Intercloud Fabric Switch

4

4

20

Scalability Limits

The following table lists the scalability limits for the Cisco Intercloud Fabric components.

This software is installed on the enterprise data center private cloud or managed cloud. It allows connectivity with large-scale clouds, such as Azure and Amazon, and with service provider clouds operating the Cisco Intercloud Fabric Provider Platform. This solution is for consuming hybrid ports from general clouds such as Amazon and Azure and from ecosystem clouds.